The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-16
RIISCELLANEOIIR.

A WATEKSPOUT broke at dooVerSVlllc, "a,
on the 7th, flooding that and other towns.
Much damage was done, numbers OF dwell
ings being wrecked. There We're rumors
of loss of life.
COPELAND & MCLAREN, importers and
commission merchants of Montreal, have
made an assignment. Liabilities, 100000;
assets, $4,000
The thirty annual session of the
Grand Lodge of the American Protestant
Association began at Washington ON thc
Sth
THE dwelling of A. Brown was burned at
Bedford Ont, the other morning Four
small children, all under ten years OF age,
perished in the flames. The parents, with
baby, barely escaped with their lives
COLLECTOR SALTOSsTALL, OF Boston, has
imposed fine of 81 900 upon the Cunard
Steamship Company for permitting an in
sane woman to land from one of their YES
sells.
LIEUTENANT J. W. GRAYDoN, retired
naval officer, has lately been making some
experiments in quarries near Washington
with a new explosive intended to supplant
dynamite for blasting purposes. So far
his experiments have met with remarkable
results, and quarrymen say the new COM
pound develops apower three or four times
greater than dynamite.
THE town marshal of Moreland, KY, re-
Gently attempted to arrest Jack and Will
liam Logan, when he was fatally shot. The
marshal's two assistants thereupOn shot
both the Logans dead. The father of ehe
two boys has for some time been in the
Lexington jail charged with murder.
CHARLES SPENCER, one of the best known
men in Dakota, was indicted recently by the
grand jury at Pierre on the charge of cattle
stealing.
THE Pittsburgh Western railway was
sold at auction recently in Pittsburgh for
81, 100000.
1T is reported that the Paris exhibition
will be postponed until 1890.
NoTEs to the amount of 50, 600 have been
distracted from letters in the mails be-
tween Prague and Vienna.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD, of the National
Treasury Department, has ordered the rev
enue marine vessels TO patrol the coast as
far as possible to assist in the maintenance
of quarantine.
A NATIONAL convention of factory in
spectors was held in Philadelphia on the
Sth.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake were felt in
the City of Mexico during three days re-
Gently.
IHE Stflke OF Une DetfOlJ SlONe HOlueFS
has been declared off, the mems terms hav
ing been acceded to.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence Unions OF
Ohio and Indiana held conventions on the
Sth.
THE Supreme Court of New York City has
decided that pool selling outside OF race
tracks is not contrary to law.
The national convention of chiefs and
commissioners of bureaus of labor statistics
was held in Madison. Wis, on the Sth.
ALL the old directors of the Suez Canal
Company were reelected in Paris on the
Sth. The receipts were reported as 81, 96O,-
900 less in 1886 than in 1885.
THE Findlay, o., natural gas boom cele-
bration attracted about 10000 visitors to
that place recently. A feature OF the cele-
bration was the laying of several founda-
tion stones for manufacturing enterprises.
JERE DUNN. Tom Gould and several other
bunco steerers and confidence men got into
the Prudence Lodge Of Masonry at New
York. The fact was brought before the
Grand Lodge recently, a special committee
severely condemning the admission of such
men into the order
THE barber OF the White Star steamer
Germanic committed suicide at sea recent
ly by jumping overheard.
The dome OF the great Lick observatory
at Mount Hamilton, Cal, was finished on
the 9th.